Combined cork-puller and time-indicator.



K. E. PARKER.

COMBINED CORK FULLER AND TIME INDICATOR. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 14,1906.

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IINI'IED STATES EAIENT @FFICE.

KITTIE E. PARKER, OF LA FAYETTE, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOFREDERICK R.

- PARKER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED CORK-FULLER AND TIME-INDICATOR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KITTIE E. PARKER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at La Fayette, in the county of Tippecanoe and Stateof Indiana, have invented a new and useful Combined Cork-Puller andTimeIndicator of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawings, illustrating same.

My invention relates to cork or stopper pullers and to time indicators,and more particularly to a combination of the two, adapted to indicateany predetermined time.

The principal objects of my invention are to provide improved means forindicating time on a bottle or other receptacle, or wherever it isdesired to perform a certain duty at a given time; to combine thetime-indicating means with a cork or stopper puller to be used inconnection with a corked receptacle for pulling the cork and forindicating time; and to provide simplicity and cheapness of manufacturein such a device.

Other objects will be apparent from the following specification.

On certain occasions it is very desirable to have a time indicator athand to indicate the exact time at which a certain duty must beperformed. For instance, in a sick-room where the patient is required totake medicine at certain intervals, it is very desirable for theattendant to the sick one to have such a device to call attention to thefact that a dose of medicine must be given at a certain time, or thatother duties must be performed. Such a device eliminates the necessityof depending upon the memory for these things and does away with theirregularity of such duties, especially where several kinds of medicineare being given to the patient, the intervals being regulated by thememory, or lack of memory, of the attendant. Then again the doctor mayleave medicine for the patient without any written directions, in whichcase the doses are given entirely from the memory of the attendant.

The devices of this invention are also very desirable in the kitchen, incooking, baking, canning fruit, making jelly, etc., when it is desiredto leave the food on the stove or in the oven for a definite length oftime. As a device for carrying out these purposes, I preferably providea dial and a pointer which Specification of Letters Fate-zit.

Application filed March 14, 1906.

lPatented Jan. 26, 1909.

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may be set relatively to each other so as to indicate any predeterminedtime at which the duty should be performed. An occasional glance at sucha device will save the attendant the trouble of trying to remember thepredetermined time.

In connection with a bottle, I preferably provide a cork puller with apointer adapted to indicate time on the dial.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the preferred form of myinvention, Figure 1 is a side view of a bottle and cork equipped withmyinvention; and Fig. 2 is a top view of Fig. 1, showing the face of thedial and the pointer.

Like characters refer to like parts in the several figures.

In the drawings, 1 is a bottle, provided with a cork or stopper 2. Thebottle may contain a medicine 3, or anything else, if desired. The dial4 is preferably graduated in hours and fractions thereof, preferably asshown, and is movably held down on the cork 2 by a cork-screw 5 which isprovided with a pointer 6 adapted to register with the scale on the dialto indicate any certain time. The dial 4 may be made of aluminum,nickelloid, celluloid, or any desirable material, and the letters,figures and scale thereon may be either raised, sunken and enameled, orprinted thereon. The cork screw 5 and pointer 6 may both be made of asingle piece of wire, as shown, which gives a very cheap and simpleconstruction for these parts. The screw part 7 of the cork-screw isinserted through a hole in the center of dial 4 and is then screwed intothe cork 2 in the usual manner, thus holding the dial 4 in place againstthe cork. The cork-screw 5 also serves to pull the cork from the bottlethe same as any ordinary cork-screw.

In Fig. 2 the device is shown set to indicate the hour 2, or 2 oclock.If it is desired to set the device to indicate some other time, the dial4 is simply turned, the pointer 6 remaining stationary. In givingmedicine by this device, when one dose is given the dial is simply setto indicate the time at which the next dose is to be given.

I do not wish to limit this invention to all of the details hereinshown, as many modifications thereof may be made without departing fromthe scope of the appended claim. I have sim ly illustrated and de- Asinventor of the foregoing I hereunto scribed the preferrec form of myinvention. subscribe my name in the presence of two in What I claim asmy invention is: subscribing Witnesses, this 10th day of A stopper andan extractor therefor hav- March, 1906. 5 ing indicating means and adial movably KITTIE E. PARKER.

mounted by the extractor, relatively to the Witnesses: stopper, toregister with the indicating means I/VALTER A. GREIG,

for indicating purposes. Row. G. PARKER.

